Chapter 3306 — No Escape
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Gu Mengyao and the Grand Elder soon arrived outside the mountain gate of the Dark Night Palace. By then, Xiao San and the others had grown impatient. Xiao San leapt up and struck a palm at the mountain gate of the Dark Night Palace—at the great plaque inscribed with the three large characters "Dark Night Palace"!
"Stop!" Just then, Gu Mengyao and the Grand Elder arrived. Seeing Xiao San make his move, the Grand Elder's heart lurched; she leapt up and struck out at Xiao San!
"Bang!"
The two palms met and then quickly parted. Naturally, both had merely been testing the waters, not clashing head-on. Even so, the Grand Elder was deeply shaken—this Xiao San truly did possess the strength of a Heaven Rank late-stage peak expert. He was no simple opponent!
If it came to a fight to the death, the Grand Elder had no confidence at all that she could kill the man before her; she herself would be gravely injured. That realization left her somewhat disheartened. Where on earth had these people come from?
"I am the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace. Might I ask where you heroes have come from, and what business brings you to our Dark Night Palace?" After landing, the Grand Elder cupped her fists and asked. Though she was furious at these people's wicked conduct, the situation was what it was; the Grand Elder did not dare give vent to her anger—to do so would be to court death.
"We brothers want to found our own sect, but right now we're a bit short on resources, so we've come to ask your Dark Night Palace for some. I wonder, honored Grand Elder—will you agree, or will you agree, or will you agree?" Xiao San asked with a chuckle.
"Might I ask what you heroes want?" the Grand Elder asked, rather helplessly. Found a sect? Short on resources? Wasn't that just robbery? Robbery—why not simply say so, instead of manufacturing so many reasons and excuses?
But even though the Grand Elder knew this perfectly well, she could only grit her teeth and keep asking. This cultivation world was different from the secular world; over a robbery there was nowhere to seek justice. The strong preyed on the weak; the Dark Night Palace was weak, and so these people naturally came to bully the Dark Night Palace.
"What do we want? Didn't I just say it? We brothers want to found a sect, but we're a bit short on resources right now!" Xiao San said.
"What resources do you want?" the Grand Elder asked.
"To found a sect, you need cultivation resources, don't you? Heavenly treasures and rare materials, those are a must!" Xiao San said.
"You mean we're to give you our heavenly treasures and rare materials?" The Grand Elder had in fact already guessed as much. These cultivators had come to rob; naturally, it was not for money—if they wanted money, they would never have come to rob an ancient sect. They could simply have gone to the secular world and robbed some financial group or other, and they would have had all they wanted! Their coming to an ancient sect was, of course, aimed at cultivation resources.
"That's right. Whatever your Dark Night Palace has, hand it all over to us!" Xiao San nodded and said.
"All of it?!" The Grand Elder's expression changed at once. She had not expected these people's appetites to be so vast—they actually wanted all of the Dark Night Palace's cultivation resources. Was that not the same as demanding the Dark Night Palace's life?
"Heh, of course. But don't be in a hurry—I'm not finished yet!" Xiao San waved his hand and went on: "We also need a place to found our sect. I'd say the Dark Night Palace's location is quite good. From now on it belongs to us—you can move out!"
"Don't you dare!" The Grand Elder was trembling with rage at Xiao San's words. "This is too much, too much! Do you not realize that your conduct has already broken the cultivation rules of the Ancient Plane?"